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This is the 2024 archive of my daily stories which began in January 2023, with an overview at User:Gerda Arendt/Story list that also features example stories. This archive has daily entries up to the day of the year while those following may be overwritten by new ones. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:48, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Romuald Twardowski,
a prolific Polish composer
who studied in Vilnius, Warsaw and Paris,
composed operas such as Maria Stuart,
a Violin Concerto,
and sacred music for both Catholic use
and the Orthodox Church including the
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.
Helga Paris
photographed people and streetscapes
in East Germany,
Garbage Collectors, Berliner Kneipen,
Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, self portraits,
and houses and faces from Halle over three years,
and then the exhibition was cancelled.
- see 9 March 2023: Azio Corghi
The titular character of
Verdi's Nabucco,
the opera that established his fame
when it premiered on 9 March 1842
at La Scala in Milan,
is a combination
of three historic rulers.
German stage director
Tobias Kratzer
nominated two versions of
Verdi's Rigoletto
(premiered 11 March 1851)
for an international competition,
pretending to be an American woman
in the first instance,
and a Bulgarian in the second.
10 May 2018
Christa Wolf
(18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011)
wrote Der geteilte Himmel
in a "quest for personal integrity
within a flawed system",
published in East Germany in 1963
and called a "socialist bestseller".
- see 20 March 2023: Stefan Keil
- see 26 March 2023: Jörg Streli
- see 3 April 2023: Renate Behle
- see 10 April 2023: [[Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66
The first choral section
from the 1714 Bach cantata for Jubilate Sunday,
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
(Weeping, lamenting, worrying, fearing),
described as a "deeply affecting" tombeau,
became the Crucifixus of the Mass in B minor.
- see 2 May 2023: Manfred Weiss
- see 4 May 2023: Kurt Huber
- see 6 May 2023: Te Deum
- see 9 May 2023: Colin Mawby
- see 12 May 2023: Raimund Hoghe
- see 13 May 2023: Kari Løvaas
- see 17 May 2023: Günter Wewel
- see 21 May 2023: Irma Blank
- see 22 May 2023: Maria Mies
"Ständchen"
(Serenade),
the setting of a poem by A. F. v. Schack
by Richard Strauss,
begins with an appeal to creep out quietly
and ends with a climax of expecting
a rose to glow from the rapture of the night.
- see 31 May 2023: Eva Randová
- see 3 June 2023: Michael Hampe
- see 5 June 2023: Aile Asszonyi
Peter Demetz,
who taught German literature
at Yale University
from 1956 to 1991,
was born in Prague
where he was persecuted under the Nazis
and escaped the Communist regime in 1949.
- see 7 June 2023: Kurt Widmer
- see 13 June 2023: Kurt Equiluz
- same as 2023
- see 18 June 2023: Jörg Faerber
- see 19 June 2023: Jörg Widmann
- see 26 June 2023: Alte Liebe
- see 29 June 2023: Soňa Červená
- see 3 July 2023: Rachel Yakar
- see 7 July 2023: Wolkentanz
- see 12 July 2023: Frank Stähle
- see 19 July 2023: Martin Janus
- see 21 July 2023: Casals Forum
- see 4 October 2023: Le Laudi
"Call it causelessly merry")
was one of about 40 poems
by Mascha Kaléko
set to music on a 2011 album.
"Ich freu mich, daß am Himmel Wolken ziehen"
Zdeněk Mácal,
a promising Czech conductor,
left his home country in 1968
and was chief conductor of orchestras
in Germany, Australia and the United States,
returning to Prague to lead
the Czech Philharmonic from 2003.
Rebekka Habermas,
a German historian
at the University of Göttingen,
who also taught
in Paris, Montreal and New York,
focused on people
in the social and cultural conditions
of 19th-century Germany.